mad - Story 87046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the subject line a taunt: "Potential Home Improvement Projects." He'd been looking for a place to start his own creative projects. He found them now, in the form of the renovation next door. He reread the information, each sentence a blow.

He slammed his laptop shut, the metallic clang echoing in the room. He should have known. He should have seen it coming. He felt a wave of helplessness wash over him, a feeling of being trapped.

He pushed back from his desk, needing to move, to do something, anything. He paced the small apartment, his agitation growing with each step. He needed air, desperately.

Emotion: mad

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.94 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.26

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion mad. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 mad stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the mad emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the mad vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.448
`骂`	0.344
`est`	0.340
`🤬`	0.336
`aggravated`	0.332

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.495
`de`	-0.485
`la`	-0.387
`H`	-0.344
`latter`	-0.290